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How Hulu, NBC, and Other Sites Block Google TV
Shortly after the launch of Google TV, it became clear that several networks and services were blocking access. Reader padarjohn points out a blog post from Lauren Weinstein explaining the blocking mechanisms being used and wondering why it's being tolerated. "Imagine the protests that would ensue if Internet services arbitrarily blocked video only to Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers! Or if Hulu and the other networks decided they'd refuse to stream video to HP and Dell computers because those manufacturers hadn't made deals with the services to the latter's liking." Various workarounds are being used to get around the blocks.
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You block asia? Fine, be a racist asshole but you are NOT blocking emails from pine are you? So how is this comparable to what Hulu is doing. They are BOTH blocking on region AND device. That copyright means the world wide web isn't, is bad enough. But now they are also determining what hardware/software you can use. What if it becomes IE only? You still will be saying the same? So MS only has to buy up enough content to turn the web IE only?
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You have opened the door to: Petrol stations only selling to Ford trucks. Busses only accepting gold platinum credit cards and therefor not picking up poor people == black people. Discrimiation of services is a very slippery slope. And you got corporate dick so far up your mouth you can't see anything but pubic hair.
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Netflix is not available here, yet another case of trying to cling to obsolete distribution models... Regional distributors made sense with physical goods, but they don't make sense for the internet. The pirate bay is not inherently racist (yes intentional regional discrimination is effectively racism), and doesn't care where its users reside.
I don't have netflix clients in any of my devices, and don't particularly want a proprietary client encumbered by DRM. My satellite receiver is perfectly capable of streaming content over smb, ftp, http, nfs or loading it from usb devices.
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You are really an ass. This is why people (myself included) hate people from the U.S. so much. The United States of America is a SUBSET of all the states of America. It's rude to insult all Americans when typically it is just those from the U.S. that fuck things up so much. We desperately need a new adjective to refer to a person from the U.S. but until one formally exists, USian will have to do. Just don't ever use the word "American" unless you mean it to refer to everyone on this hemisphere.
And to the others who have commented on this thread offering various comparisons--none of them are valid. I can't think of any other similar situation, except perhaps using the word "Soviets" to refer ONLY to Russians and not all of the countries that were a part of the USSR.
You could also compare it to the phrase "British accent" which is entirely meaningless, considering the wide variation in accents between Scotland, England, Wales, etc. If you can find a Scot who is actually proud to be British (hard to find, I realize!), I could see them being quite offended at people calling an English accent "British" as if it represented the entire country.
Similarly, an "American Accent" is Spanish-speaking accent, as that is the language spoken by the majority of Americans, though I could imagine a few people in the U.S. who wouldn't be happy about this.